This entire premise is ridiculous. Games are the best they’ve ever been, there is a massive amount of fantastic titles out there from major developers and indie studios alike. Sure there are some crappy titles and shady ones that nickel and dime you but on a whole this is a great time to be someone who enjoys video games.
Read the book in 4th grade, due to the marketing I did not have any interests seeing the film but judging by your comment it seems they more or less kept in line with the source. It is not a happy story.
I think the movie explains Roy’s character enough, he’s a roboman, forced to fight a war and wants freedom to make his own way and is instead murderized for that want. Not much more needs to be developed there.
My personal experience was I ended up vaping inside and smoking outside. Started feeling real shitty.
Edit: I should add I did eventually quit and what helped me was 1) really wanting to quit and 2) tea tree oil toothpicks to pop in my mouth any time I wanted a cig. Munched on those for a good 6 months or so.
It’s not the entirety of the beast but a lot of addiction is related to ritual and comfort so any way to subvert the substance out of the same ritual helps (not saying I’m not still addicted to other things but I did at least shake nicotine)
Are you either not American or living under a rock? Everyone is thirsting after him. The joke is not “strange” unless you do not understand what a physically attractive person is.
People who complain about content on lemmy should probably just look for different communities. Or maybe not be psychotic right-wingers looking for 8chan edgelord content.
Netflix car-fixer show guy: “this would be a great deal at TWICE the price, we’re gonna make a killing once we get this job done but we only have TWO DAYS other wise the client is gonna bail.”
everyone wants a murderbabe in theory but like… they’d probably just murderize you.